Category: Short Stories
Our families occupied neighbouring houses in the country, and Minna used to hide in the bathroom whenever our governess took us round. She was to us but a symbol of shyness for months before she became a body--a very thin body, with dark, straggly hair, and dark eyes, and very...
Our families occupied neighbouring houses in the country, and Minna used to hide in the bathroom whenever our governess took us round. She was to us but a symbol of shyness for...
2. Part 2The Boss spun round: “Electrics! You blazing ass! Ten to one but you’ve cut my connection, turning up the lights like that. The voice of----! Great snakes! What a turn! What a t...
3. Part 3“Delighted,” he said; “delighted. I make friends of the creatures and flowers as much as possible, but they can’t always make us understand.” And after we had taken off our resp...
4. Part 4Every morning when he awoke his first thought was: How am I? For it was extremely important that he should be well, seeing that when he was not well he could neither produce wha...
5. Part 5But the canon which of all he regarded as most sacred was this: A critic must surrender himself to the mood and temper of the work he is criticising, take the thing as it is wit...
6. Part 6This one should follow principles that could not fail. For, first, it should tolerate nothing--nothing at all. That was the mistake they had made last time. They had tolerated s...
7. Part 7It was clearly this which caused him to feel so much like God when they were about. Glad enough, as any man might be, of that discovery, it did not set his mind at rest. He felt...
8. Part 8There was in her blood that which bade her hasten, lest there should be something still new to her when she died. Death! She was continually haunted by the fear lest that itself...
9. Part 9The time had now come for him to embrace his profession, and he did so like a true Briton, with his eye ever on the future. He perceived from the first that this particular race...
10. Part 10“Ah! there you have a pigeon who has less complacency than any living thing. You see, it depends on circumstances. Suppose, for instance, that we happened to keep Our Selves--pe...
11. Part 11“The saints forbid!” he answered. “But when a thing exists which you really abhor--as you do this--I do wish you would consider a little whether, in letting it strictly alone, y...
12. Part 12“I perceive, sir,” answered his dragoman, “that you have not yet regained your understanding of the human being, and especially of the breed which inhabits this country. Illusio...
13. Part 13“A group of diseases called for convenience Scienticitis. Some think they come from the present food system; others from the accumulation of lymphs in the body; others, again, r...
14. Part 14“You must not suppose, sir,” pursued his dragoman, “that there is not plenty of the undraped, so long as it is vulgar, as you saw just now upon the stage, for that is good busin...
15. Part 15“Public morality,” his dragoman began, “is either superlative, comparative, positive, or negative. And superlative morality is found, of course, only in the newspapers. It is th...
16. Part 16“What in your opinion is the nature of happiness?” asked the Angel Æthereal, as he finished his second bottle of Bass, in the grounds of the White City. The dragoman regarded hi...